US has bombed three nuclear sites in Iran, Trump announces
President Donald Trump has announced that the U.S. has bombed three nuclear sites in Iran.
โWe have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan,โ the president wrote on Truth Social. โAll planes are now outside of Iran air space. A full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow.โ
Fordow and Natanz both house uranium enrichment centers, while Esfahan is where Iran is believed to be keeping near-bomb-grade enriched uranium, according to The New York Times. The Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant is buried deep underground, heavily fortified and expected to contain 2,700 centrifuges, which are essential for uranium enrichment.
โAll planes are safely on their way home. Congratulations to our great American Warriors,โ Trump added. โThere is not another military in the World that could have done this. NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE! Thank you for your attention to this matter.โ
The president is expected to address the nation at 10 p.m. Eastern time.

Multiple B-2 bomber planes departed an airbase in Missouri and flew across the Pacific earlier today ahead of the strikes. A Pentagon official told The New York Times the U.S. used B-2s to carry out the strikes.
Just 24 hours before this strike, Trump claimed Tehran could produce a working nuclear weapon within โa matter of weeks.โ His remark directly contradicted sworn testimony given in May by National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard. The former Congresswoman testified that the intelligence community โcontinues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon.โ
Earlier this week, Trump said he would make his decision on whether to strike within two weeks, citing a โsubstantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future.โ
Trump said Wednesday that Iranian negotiators should have accepted an agreement his administration previously proposed during talks that took place over the last two months.
โThey should have made the deal. I had a great deal for them,โ Trump said. โThey should have made that deal 60 days. We talked about it, and in the end, they decided not to do it, and now they wish they did it, and they want to meet, but it’s, you know, late to meet, but they want to meet, and they want to come to the White House.โ
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